Title :
Load Balancing in a Cluster Computer
Author :
Werstein, Paul ; Situ, Hailing ; Huang, Zhiyi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Otago Univ., Dunedin
Abstract :
This paper proposes a load balancing algorithm for distributed use of a cluster computer. It uses load information including CPU queue length, CPU utilisation, memory utilisation and network traffic to decide the load of each node. This algorithm is compared to an algorithm using only the CPU queue length. The performance evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm performs well
Keywords :
performance evaluation; queueing theory; resource allocation; workstation clusters; CPU queue length; CPU utilisation; cluster computer; load balancing; load information; memory utilisation; network traffic; Central Processing Unit; Clustering algorithms; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Heuristic algorithms; Load management; Multimedia databases; Scheduling algorithm; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2006. PDCAT '06. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2736-1
DOI :
10.1109/PDCAT.2006.77
